Will we continue to march to the drumbeat of conformity and respectability, or will we, listening to the beat of a more distant drum, move to its echoing sounds? Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) American clergyman, civil rights leader, social activist, preacher

Strength to Love, ch. 2 “Transformed Nonconformist,” sec. 3 (1963)
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